I might just be reading something wrong i see the perms for effect toggles and what not. I turn them off and upon restart they reset. Also i have negated the effect perms as well and the effects still dont stay off. Is there a way to default the effects to off? My friend had it that way once before but im not sure how he did it. Any help in advance is greatly appreciated

The effects are all default disabled. You must be granting the nodes in your permissions plugin somehow.

If you are using Multiverse, update to the latest dev build to fix a bug that grants all perm nodes.